How to Use quatrain in a Sentence
quatrain
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This second quatrain shows the progress made by a model that has nearly finished its training.
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IEEE Spectrum,
2020-04-30
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This week: Write a quatrain or — heck — two of Balliol rhyme about some person.
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Washington Post,
2020-02-20
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The poem’s tercets evoke an uneasy balance, until the fourth stanza, where a quatrain appears, suspending time for just a little bit longer, like those who leaped from the burning floors.
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New York Times,
2022-09-08
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The three quatrains develop an idea or theme, and the final couplet puts forth a conclusion, a summary, an application, a narrowing of focus or even a surprise reversal.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2019-09-28
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Here is the first quatrain of that poem:
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
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The New Yorker,
2016-04-23
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